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strident
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  • —to turn into some pert-mouthed, strident angry-girl.  (source)
  • The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.  (source)
  • "Where did you sleep last night?" she demanded in the strident, accusing voice she reserved for slaves.  (source)
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  • At once strident and flirtatious, she is a little bit drunk.  (source)
    strident = forceful or loud and harsh
  • His shoulders went stiff with surprise; Clary heard the bark of a familiar, stridently angry female voice, and a moment later Isabelle and Maryse Lightwood pushed past Luke and strode into the room, followed by the gray, menacing figure of the Inquisitor.  (source)
    stridently = loud and harsh
  • His voice was rising to a horrible pitch of impassioned stridency.†  (source)
  • Their squabbling, their stridence drowned memory; that tireless tossing of their bodies, their whirring gestures, jerky antics stitched a fluctuant, tough, ever-renewing veil between himself and terror.†  (source)
  • "Our team has taken nine shots and made three—they've taken two shots and made one," she told them, her voice sharp and strident.  (source)
    strident = unpleasantly forceful
  • As he spoke, Seth howled stridently outside the tent.†  (source)
  • On her end, Mommy had no model for raising us other than the experience of her own Orthodox Jewish family, which despite the seeming flaws-an unbending nature, a stridency, a focus on money, a deep distrust of all outsiders, not to mention her father's tyranny-represented the best and worst of the immigrant mentality: hard work, no nonsense, quest for excellence, distrust of authority figures, and a deep belief in God and education.†  (source)
  • With the result that for several days when twilight came-it fell much quicker at this time of the year-the streets were almost empty, and silent but for the long-drawn stridence of the wind.†  (source)
  • The telescreen had changed over to strident military music.  (source)
    strident = forceful or loud and harsh
  • BRADY (Red-faced, his larynx taut, roaring stridently) As they would look to the mountains whence cometh our strength.†  (source)
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